Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Previously: Comic Classics – Great Expectations OLD books get NEW doodles – it’s the classics as you’ve never seen them before! A hilarious new series that brings the classics to life with illustrations by Jack Noel. Jim Hawkins spends his life helping out at his mum’s boring old inn by the sea, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Packed with James Carter’s most popular and requested poems, plus 8 brand new poems, this is an important collection from one of the top children’s poets writing today. Expect to hear the moon speak, explore a magic wood and play air guitar. You’ll meet wolves, elephants and a dung beetle; you’ll get […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Jan 2020 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Emotionally resonant and stirring, this is a must-have title.” KIRKUS “Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting.” HORN BOOK Everything Comes Next is a treasure chest of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poems from the past 40 years, including […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A witty take on a much-loved fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book celebrates the magic of reading and storytelling, and being kind to others. A follow-up to Little Red Riding Hood by the same author-illustrator team: When Ben’s mum gets distracted halfway through his bedtime story, he […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Dark, demanding and delicious.” KIRKUS from the author of The Hazel Wood… A highly anticipated collection of twelve deeply creepy pitch-dark stories each with a gorgeously illustrated lino print title page by Nick Hayes. In this brutal and beautiful world a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a […]
A treasury of stories celebrating the wonders of winter, and the qualities within that warm our hearts through the long cold. This stunning book brings together a selection of wintery tales from all over the world – from North America to Siberia, Scotland, France, Russia and Norway. Written by award-winning author Dawn Casey and with […]
Be entranced by Circus Mum, find out what it’s like to have a Celebrity Mum, play the beautiful game with Football Mum, admire Hard-working Mum, School-Run-Mum and Stunt Mum, and discover what it’s like to have Two Mums. A funny, heart-warming and thoughtful sequel to The Dictionary of Dads, by a brilliant poet, who performs […]
Cookson’s assured sense of rhythm and rhyme make this a wonderful collection for reading aloud. The poems are so accessible they will appeal to the full primary school age range. Perfect for every teacher to have in their kitbag for those precious spare moments in the teaching day. And it goes without saying there should […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 2 Dec 2020 “Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives.” John Freeman, LitHub “This introspective memoir confirms by its very existence that, though the boarding schools tried to erase Indian culture, Native peoples “are still / here, / still […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Nov 2020 A girl journeys across unknown lands to rescue her friend from the clutches of The Snow Queen, who has imprisoned his heart in ice. A sister struggles to break the spell that has turned her ten princely brothers into swans. A mermaid decides to leave her underwater […]
The poems are selected from Allie Esiri’s bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, this book dazzles with an array of familiar favourites and remarkable new discoveries. These seasonal poems – together […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day, Wednesday 4 Nov 2020 People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales – to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 30 Oct 2020 We cannot recommend this book highly enough… A book made for shuttered winter reading. Buy three copies – one for yourself, one to give to an adult friend, and one to an older child or teen hungry to have their vocabulary broadened. Those who follow our Twitter […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 29 Oct 2020 “The Stone Giant is both beautiful and taut. It is fairy-tale telling reminiscent of Grimms’, but not too scary for little ones. Anna Höglund, inspired by the Swedish author Elsa Beskow’s Tripp, Trapp, Trull, brings us a tale of bravery, audacity and cleverness.” VOLUME “My dear child, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 23 Oct 2020 An extensive collection of Yiddish literary texts for children translated into English, this anthology contains works from familiar as well as not so widely known Yiddish language writers… [A] comprehensive and valuable set of stories and poetry. KIRKUS Arranged thematically-from school days to the holidays-the book takes […]
This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables, including the Boy who Cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with thirty-seven woodcuts […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Oct 2020 Winner of the 2020 CLIPPA Poetry Award A poetry collection that captures eye-popping moments, tender observations and a thousand whimsical reflections on the sheer joy of the natural world. Cherry Moon bubbles with excitement and creativity. Discover parades of beast-doodles, preposterous penguins, talking blossoms, razz- dazzle birds, humble […]
ACHUKA #BookOfTheDay 8 Oct 2020 COVID very nearly killed Michael Rosen. He had a much, much longer stay in hospital and a much rougher ride than the Prime Minister. He still hasn’t fully recovered physically but, judging from his activity on Twitter, his mind has been unaffected. The collection’s title took me back to the […]
A fairy tale remix… Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest – a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn’t appreciate Hansel and Greta’s plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they’re horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn’t give two hoots about nature. […]
Shortlisted for the 2020 CLIPPA Poetry Award Wain is a collection of LGBT-themed poetry for teens based on retellings of Scottish myths. The collection contains stories about kelpies, selkies, and the Loch Ness Monster, alongside perhaps lesser-known mythical people and creatures, such as wulvers, Ghillie Dhu, and the Cat Sìth. These poems immerse readers in an […]
Shortlisted for the 2020 CLIPPA Poetry Award A collection of “how-to” poems on all sorts of subjects and from all around the world… Find a patch of unbroken snow; dye your hair green with purple spots; slowly breathe in and out; bounce in your space-boots … and don’t take off your helmet, whatever you do! […]
